Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

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.

Don't think that this people are stupid, probably you have caught one, but you didn't finish your work and what now???You were in their trap...

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.

Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.

The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.