“A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.”

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.

The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it’s wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.

You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let’s say you desire security.

There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”

The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.

1 billion of excess cash flow coverage through 2017 and the Access cash flows, along with our major new fee based projects continue to dramatically reduce exposure to commodity prices.

I’d like to walk along that. Don’t worry, I won’t get drunk and fall in.

Anyone who says rock ‘n’ roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.

I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.