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

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.

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.

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

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.

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