Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

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

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

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

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