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

The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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

A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.

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

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.

Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.

When the church is in mission, it is the true church.

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

I don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.

I’m not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don’t go to church like I should.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.