“Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.”

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.

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.

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.

Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.

Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.

I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God’s hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.

We Are Bulletproof: The Eternal’ demonstrates that we will keep going despite the difficulties. It reveals our ego.