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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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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