Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

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.

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.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.

A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

To not think of dying, is to not think of living.

Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.

Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.