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

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.

A smile is on everyone's lips.

Drum Competitions are called such because no one wants to win the big Beat Off.

The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything.

First is first, and second is nowhere.

I don't offend anyone, I don't use anyone, I don't exploit anyone.

Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.

I'm not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don't think he have been high on my list for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

My point is that the social forces liberals like to point to are real - I absolutely agree - but, at the same time, a good grounding from a family can make a huge difference.

I'm always have been in my life a big protector of women. If I see a guy slap a girl I would rip their head off; I'm very like that.