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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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