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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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