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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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