The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.
The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can’t be achieved alone.
Stagnation is death. If you don’t change, you die. It’s that simple. It’s that scary.
What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don’t change, you die. It’s that simple. It’s that scary.
When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I’m a learner, kindness is everything.
Too many Christians want to change the world not because they love the world but because they hate the world.
When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes – ‘time to save the world!’
As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can renew the divine image in the world, moving postmoderns from one state of embodiment to another.
People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.
The time to save God’s Dream is now. The people to save God’s Dream are you.
To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.
The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol – they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories.
The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.
The “hole in the moral ozone” is really what’s behind the hole in the ozone.
Hirsch and Ford believe that we’ve ‘demonstrated’ enough. It’s now time for ‘doing.’ This book shows how to be missional ‘Right Here, Right Now.’
Followers of Jesus don’t so much see different things from anyone else as they see the same things differently.
Leadership is the art of the future.
One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna.
Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.