A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHReconnecting 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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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