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

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.

You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.

And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.

Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.

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;

in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don’t feel very good.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state.

It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods.

Never abandon the possibility of attack.

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.