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

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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.

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.

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

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

Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.