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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.

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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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