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

More data is not always the answer..

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our….

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

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….

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual i….

Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ours….

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of ….

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

Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like..

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