The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

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.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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.

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

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