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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Demand Ourselves Position Servant Service World
The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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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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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Come Enact Fact Future Jesus Kingdom Secure Trust
In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Faith Find Leap Short
It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Aversion Change Freed Loss Outlook Risk
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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 not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Church Gospel Plant
The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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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
The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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