“A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.”

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.

A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.

Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.

Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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.

God doesn’t need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God’s way to grow Christians.

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus.

It doesn’t matter if you please the whole world and don’t please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn’t matter whom you displease.

Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.

He died to make you holy. You are not your own.

The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future.

I believe in miracles, but I trust in Jesus. If you believe the Bible, you know that God is a miracle-working God.

I may be a nut, but I’m fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.