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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Abandon Adventure Aversion Church Embrace Equip Inherent Live Loss
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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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 ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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