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

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.

Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Don’t tell me it doesn’t work. Torture works. Okay, folks?

The hard-working folks across this country deserve an economy that supports them.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Folks – I know this is a stressful time. I want to remind you to breathe and keep the faith. We’ll come out on the other side.

I love folk music of any tradition.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.