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

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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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 safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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