It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church..

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point..

A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is….

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

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify..

If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what inno….

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

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure..

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

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

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey..

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

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

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone..

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time..

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 eve….

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian..

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal se….

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now..

More data is not always the answer..