The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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