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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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