If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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

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

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

A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

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