“Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.”

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?

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.

In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

There may be a time when we’ll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.

Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.