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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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