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.

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

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

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

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

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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