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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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