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

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

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.

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

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