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 it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

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

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

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

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

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 to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.