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.

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

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

When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.