“There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.”

Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.

In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.

More data is not always the answer.

Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

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.

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.

She already has a car. A ford. Thats like toyotas worst enemy.

I already know my size. I don’t need reminding.

When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.

I’ve been told to be skinny before – it’s already happened, but it’s up to you to either listen or say no. I’m not listening.

Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there’s someone new who’s born with a new idea.

Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.