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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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 cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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