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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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