You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

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.

Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

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

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