There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life. - Alan Hirsch

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

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.

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