“In short, we find the faith of leap.”

Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.

A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.

Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.

Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.

If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.

Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

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

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.

Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.

I don’t think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it’s finding the right thing.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.