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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.

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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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