In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
ALAN HIRSCHBeing the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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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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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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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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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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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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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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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More data is not always the answer.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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 embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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