Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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