It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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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 short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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