“If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.”

It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

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.

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.

Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

Impersonal place needs something significant to fill it up.” We’ve abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but more come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.

All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.

I complained to Waki’ about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;