The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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.

But what if time worked the other way around?What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of his present one, sitting here on a sagging bench, beckoning him into his future?

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

The fears you don't face delimit your growth.

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

I'm going to change everything you believe about HUD.

Listen more to the other players on the bandstand than you do to yourself.

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

I've had a lot of good people in my life.

Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.