It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHBut 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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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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