"Jesus spurned the things my church culture said were most important."
"have we replaced what is radical about our faith with what is comfortable? are we settling for Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves?"
"a relationship with Jesus requires total, superior & exclusive devotion...."
"my plans and dreams swallowed up in His..."
"you know that in the end you are not really giving away anything at all. instead you are gaining - yes, you are abandoning everything you have, but you are also gaining more than you could have in any other way. so with joy - WITH JOY! - you sell it all, you abandon it all. why? because you have found something worth losing everything else for."
"...nothing but the people of God and the Word of God..."
"(church should be about) ... people who are equipped on sunday to participate in ministry every day of the week."
"Jesus simply, intentionally, systematically, patiently walked beside 12 men..."
"disciple making involves identifying with a community of believers who show love to one another and share life with one another as we live together for the glory of God."
"exciting things happen when the people of God believe the Word of God is worth spending their lives to teach to others."
"Jesus beckons us to plainly, humbly and quietly focus our lives on people."
"disciple making takes place multiple times every week in multiple locations by an army of men and women sharing, showing and teaching the Word of Christ and together serving a world in need of Christ."
"part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore."
"i am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produce the fruit of the gospel in my life."
"we seemed to have organized ourselves, not to engage in battle for the souls of peoples around the world, but to indulge ourselves in the peaceful comforts of the world."
"are we willing to fundamentally alter our understanding of christianity from a luxary-liner approach that seeks more comforts in the world to a troop-carrier approach that forsakes comforts in the world to accomplish an eternally significant task and achieve an eternally satisfying reward?"
"our greatest security is not found in the comforts we can manufacture in this world but in the faithful provision of The Only One who knows our needs and The Only One who is able to meet our needs in every way."
"the possibilities are limitless when the people of God are equipped and empowered to accomplish the purpose of God in the context of where they live day in and day out..."
"in our quest for extraordinary we often overlook the importance of the ordinary...a radical lifestyle actually begins with an extraordinary commitment to ordinary practices..."
"giving 2% of our time to make the gospel known in another context radically transforms the other 98% of our lives in our own context..."
"give liberally. go urgently. live dangerously."
"the challenge is to use the freedoms, resources and opportunities God has entrusted to use for His purpose in the world, all the while remaining careful not to embrace the ideas, values and assumptions that contradict what God has said in His word."
quote from nick: "maybe this book should be called 'Biblical' instead of 'Radical'."
