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

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.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

The future of architecture is culture.

I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore

I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.

I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.