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.

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

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.

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

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.