“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.”

Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

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.

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

Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.

In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.

More data is not always the answer.

It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.

A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.

Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.

Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

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

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

The Church is not a showboat; it’s a battleship.

However, the assaults against the church will be turned around, and everything that the enemy meant for harm will ultimately be used for good.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

I’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.