The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCHThe kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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