If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

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.

Life is gracious sacred-breathe.

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul

Two percent of the people think

Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.

Every flight begins with a fall.

Fear is only a four letter word.

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.