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

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

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

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

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.