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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.

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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Assume Cross Cultural Mission Now
It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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Find Innovation Only Liminal Possibility Retreat Situation
And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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