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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 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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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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 preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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