We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
ALAN HIRSCHExpressions 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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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More data is not always the answer.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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