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

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

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

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

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.