Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify..

Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like..

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants..

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone..

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure..

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, ….

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change..

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity..

Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ours….

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church..

You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers..

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees..

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress..

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable..

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change..

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism..

When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend….

More data is not always the answer..

A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is….

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in eve….