Occupation: Author Birth: October 24, 1959
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of ….
In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on….
If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?.
Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian..
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus..
You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches..
We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural..
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries..
Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective..
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 b….
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what inno….
You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian..
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life..
In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going ….
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves..
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer..
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name..
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap..
Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal se….
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 cu….