In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

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.

Disobey God and you are forgiven. Disobey Nature and you get disease.

Water is happy when it falls

The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.