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

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.

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.

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

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.

In its failure to value differences in the way people learn, the educational process often suppresses intuition, creativity, and your sense of identity.

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.

I dream of an India that is a hub of opportunities. We can't restrict ourselves to skills only, we need to encourage entrepreneurship.

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.