Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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