“But today, relatively few think of Christianity as a call to enter a new kind of living – a life jacked up with adventure, mission, and divine destiny. Faith for many is nothing more than fire insurance from hell – an acquiescence to rule keeping (it’s the least we can do) and a safety net of forgiveness when we break the rules… On this view the human experience of faith isn’t much more than a life of stumbling and bumbling around, holding on to faith the best we can till Christ sees fit to bring us home.
“But what if the Christian life is supposed to be more than that? What if it is a calling for us to step into something larger than ourselves? What if God is inviting us into something more than hell avoidance? What if he is inviting us to participate in some kind of divine quest?”