A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name. - Alan Hirsch

Let’s stop kidding ourselves — there are too many instances of Christians worshiping sublimely every Sunday, but never making an impact beyond the congregation, never experiencing the powerful beauty of communitas, and never going deeper in discipleship.

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

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