We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

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

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

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.

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.

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

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.