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

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

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

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

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

More data is not always the answer.