“I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.”

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.

In short, we find the faith of leap.

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

Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.

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.

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.

Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

When you focus on results, you will very seldom see a change in your culture. But, if you focus on a customer-centric culture, you will realize long-term results.

It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.

We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.

There’s nothing in my head that’s worth anything at all because it’s the culture that put it there.