The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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.

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.

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

The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.

We weave together the many skeins of our words, Into poems and stories and books, And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful, For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

Content Isn't King, It's the Kingdom.

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!

Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?

Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.