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

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

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.

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

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

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.