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

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

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

A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

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.

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.