“At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.”

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.

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.

If you don’t live life by fully enjoying it and opening your heart, your just not living.

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.