The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

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.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.

But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.

I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

I do have cellulite. I have it everywhere. From the neck down!

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.