If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

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

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

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?