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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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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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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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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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