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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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