The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
ALAN HIRSCHWe must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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