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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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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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