“We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.”

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.

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

Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.

Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

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

And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.

Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices

You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.