“Success here is our Achilles heel, because if we have grown a ministry using a particular model, when we’re up against new challenges, instead of thinking about new ways to conquer those challenges, our default switch is to use the old model and maybe just ride the bicycle faster and harder.”
“Our culture right now is in massive upheaval regarding centuries of Christian tradition, regarding gender roles and human sexuality. What kind of responses could that drive in us as church leaders that would revolutionize the conversation in this area?”
“We need to be thinking about all the various segments in our culture that are crying out for gospel witness, that are crying out for relevant messaging about the person and the love of Christ. And we need to be thinking about how we could be doing this better.
“I’ve noticed that of all people, missionaries tend to be behind many of the innovative spurts that we experience.”
“Think about the ministry of Jesus. Think of all the things he introduced that weren’t there before his ministry.”
“I’d say we’ve got to be really careful when it comes to innovation that we think in terms of simple faith, simple or mere orthodoxy, and allow lots of room around the edges for people to try and do different things, knowing that it’s not all going to be good stuff.”
“Truths don’t change, but those truths are delivered almost always in a cultural envelope. And that cultural envelope is where we really need to be smart about innovation.”
“The changes that we are going to be living through in the next 15 to 20 years are going to be just as accelerated as the ones we’ve been through in the last 15 to 20 years.”
“We’re living in an era where it’s hard to know what truth is. And when someone makes a truth claim, I am now conditioned to basically say, ‘No, that’s not true.’”
“As church leaders, if our target is to reach the people that are around us and globally, we have to become, I think, much more innovative about how we reach them and how we think about who we are.”
“There was a time when if you asked the question, ‘Where is innovation going to come from?’ the answer would not be Elon Musk. The answer could actually have been about Christian leaders.”
