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

Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

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

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 innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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