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.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

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

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

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

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.