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

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.

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

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.