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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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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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Attempt Church Conscious Folk Mess Morally Overtly People Perception Self Signal Upright Wrong
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Doubt God Jesus Life Mean Side Walk Wider
But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Action Attendee Church Courage Real Sacrifice Spirituality Standard
There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Already Christian Sent Such Thing Unsent
We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Assume Cross Cultural Mission Now
You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Church Gospel Plant
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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Bound Decline Eventual Imagination Increase Irrelevance Most Resource
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
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Adulthood Church Current Experience Little Missionaries Reach Young
This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Change Completely Cross Follow Game Jesus Root Submission Threshold Very
Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Church Eternal God Intend Jesus Participate Purpose World
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Apply Chest Church Defibrillator Die Mission Paddie Think
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
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Find Innovation Only Liminal Possibility Retreat Situation
Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Block God Obstruct People Purpose

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