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.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

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

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.