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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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