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

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.

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.

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.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

...No reformer is worthy of the name if he fails to be the ultimate pacesetter in his own reform drive...

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Fisherman looks for the fish in the middle of a mysterious misty lake

I'm perfect. We're all perfect.

The President [Barack Obama] had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.