A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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.

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

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

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

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

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

The thought of you makes my days brighter and my nights filled with dreams.

Deed of darkness is dark gloom.

the past is the pastthink about now. not the past.we need to move on.

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.

You cover 50 yards on the playing field of faith with a story that downplays your success. You cover 3 yards, or you may even end up backward, with anything that up-plays or promotes you.

I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.