“This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.”

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.

It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.

And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.

Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

I’ve always been completely autocratic. I’ve never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.

I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.

I feel completely alone – it’s like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

Guys, I don’t want to tell you half-truths, unless they’re completely accurate.

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.