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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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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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