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

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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

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

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

Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.