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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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