Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

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

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.

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

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.