Does the Avoidance of Risk in Our Society Affect Our Practice of Christianity?

Have you noticed how much our current society likes to eliminate risk in all aspects of society?  Take a little walk through olden times with me.  Growing up these activities were common place:

• School playgrounds that had swings with wooden seats, merry go rounds, see saws, and large metal slides placed on the dirt or gravel areas
• No baby seats in cars, no seat belts, no airbags
• Riding on the car fenders shooting rabbits or riding in the back of the pickup
• Hunting alone with shotgun or 22 at age 12-- I really think it was earlier
• Driving a team of horses pulling a hay rake at age 10
• Riding bicycle without  a helmet

Until recently, we did not have these laws or organizations to protect against risk.

• No OHSA ( Occupation Safety and Health Association -created 1970)
• No Transportation Security Association ( risk of terrorist attack)
• No EPA ( reducing risks from air and water) 
• Extensive labeling of food products (to reduce health risks)
• Controls on common guns and their purchase ( to eliminate risk of attacks)
• Consumer Product Safety Commission ( risk from products)
• Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (minimize financial risk)

It seems obvious that our society is moving towards trying to minimize all risk.  Just today the news  was on moving legislation to try minimize the role of football in athletics in K-12 in Texas to eliminate concussions or other injuries.  There was a bill introduced in Missouri to confiscate all guns.  These examples suffice to demonstrate the fears that our society has.

Risk avoidance can also be equated to the fear of ..............you fill in the blank.  This fears can be classified into four areas: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/1201/prescol.html

• Fear of what our history has taught us to fear
• Fear of what we cannot control
• Fear of what appears to be an immediate threat or risk
• Fear of what we have seen/heard/read that is in our immediate memory particularly visual images

Do we have the same types fears and consequently try to avoid risk as Christians and in "doing church?"

• Do we fear any change in methodology will create a "slippery slope" 
• Do we fear those in the brotherhood who are trying new ways of "doing church" because they do not fit with the "way we have always done things"?
• Do we the "missional movement" because it threatens or comfortable way of doing church by  : a) using incarnational appproaches instead of  getting everyone to come to the building for our great programs and b) focusing on the unchurched "out there" instead correcting the doctrinal errors of our neighbors and leaving missions to the "missions committee"?
• Do we fear what we have read about "change agents" who tell us what we have been doing is not working?

Just Asking.