Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people.

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

Leaders fix things that are broken.

As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen.