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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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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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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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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Demand Ourselves Position Servant Service World
We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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Doubt God Jesus Life Mean Side Walk Wider
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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