Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

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.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.

with the pain jealousy instils and the love hate relationship it creates surely its just easier to appreciate what you have then what you could loose

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.