Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

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

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

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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.

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 irrelevance.

You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

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

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