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

In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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.

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

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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.