There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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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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