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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Agent Disciple God Kingdom
I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Culture Despite Found Hard Way Sure
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Comfort Distress Knock Leader Question People Real Result Zone
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Complacency Create Culture Embedded Holy Problem Solution Spiritual Systematically Ultimate
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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Mirror Misapprehension Reproduction Simply
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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Church God Mission Much
We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Assume Cross Cultural Mission Now
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Big Crash Demand Dramatic God King Kingdom Opera Unavoidable
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Aversion Change Freed Loss Outlook Risk
Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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Consider Decentralize Everyone Ministry Mission Organisation Structure
You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Approach Christendom Christian Sell World
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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Adrenaline Change Community Culture Junkie Make Unsustainable
Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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