A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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 safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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