The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.