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.

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

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.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

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

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.