“Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.”

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.

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.

You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

When you’re not finding the fairway, it’s hard to be consistent. [Right now] I’m comfortable and I’m not so comfortable, if that makes sense.

I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

There should be laughter, and kisses and comfort.

Blissful comfort of pain and sorrow ravishes my rationality and drinks up my hope, for even thee whom I romanticize so deeply leaves me in a pool of intrusive thoughts telling me no matter what I say or do even the mirror despises you.