In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.