But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

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

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

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

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.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts

He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt)

One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.

I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

Either create your own journey or you'll become a part of someone else's.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.