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.

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.

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

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.

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

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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.