A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

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

A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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

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