Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

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

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

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.