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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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