If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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.

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

Well no, I think we won't have that problem but as far as paparazzi I'm speaking, I will deal with that.

I wish my mind was a dog and I could train it to go sit.

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.

(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics.

Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.

God didn't create any of us to be average. He didn't make us to barely get by. We were created to excel.

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.