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

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.

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.