Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

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.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

If you think you can kiss her, you probably could have ten minutes ago.

Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.

Where wolves live, the forest is healthy

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.