The really scary thing is that the most dedicated members don’t have too many nonbelieving friends either. How can they get around in the world if they’re always at church? It’s a recipe for a dying church, a post-Christendom church. Mission arises at the margins rather than at the center. —PAUL PIERSON5 RADICAL RENUNCIATION God chose to be manifest in Jesus in a particular culture at a particular time, and his arrival was a clear message about the kind of mission he intended. He chose an obscure