Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.

Somewhere along the line, "Church" became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together.

Religion and spirituality can easily be intertwined; however, there is a very distinct separation between the two.

I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

Bombs have kill-radiuses; churches should have love-radiuses--anyone within twenty miles of a church should know it.

It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do." - Nathan Phelps

God makes his gospel attractive through people…that is the point of the gospel; it is trans-formative in nature.

The problem is not a lack of churches, but a lack of true ministers, and believers that really are followers of Christ.

The Church is going to have to recognise that secularisation is not the cause of their decline, it is the result of it.