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

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

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

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