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.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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