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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Assume Cross Cultural Mission Now
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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Block God Obstruct People Purpose

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