“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.”

“It’s inevitable that worship decays into contempt, because worship is ultimately about being trapped, being a slave.”

“Life is immense, comprehensive and dynamic. It includes spirit and matter and idealism and pragmatism and rotates round the axis of the noble and the ignoble. Life strives for higher ends. It is a mission, a service, and finally worship.”

“Most atheists, if they worship anything, worship something which really exists but is not worthy of worship.”

“What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.”

“This is why we are on record claiming that the missional conversation — refactoring mission back into the equation of church — contains the seeds of authenticity and renewal for Christianity in our time and place.”

“I wish to adopt a holistic approach to the mission of the Church. To my mind the mission of the Church is to collaborate with God in God’s work for the wholeness of the human person, the human community and the cosmos according to the pattern revealed in Jesus Christ”

“Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.”

“Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.”

“The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.”