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

A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

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

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

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

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.