You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

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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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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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Bible Evangelism Expression Operate Seeker Teach
Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Freshness Insight Know
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Our Preference Stability Themselves
Reconnecting 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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Reconnecting 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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Community Reconnect Way
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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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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Church Contain Phrase Less Lie Missional Nest Nothing Paradigm Religious Somewhere Western
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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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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Bound Decline Eventual Increase Irrelevance Most
I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.

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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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Culture Despite Found Hard Way
It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Fabric Knitted Seem Yearn
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Big Crash Dramatic Kingdom Opera Unavoidable
Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Counterfeit Some Worship
Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

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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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Folk Liminality Religious
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Consumerism Such West
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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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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Church Dialectic Missional
The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Appetite Exclusive Religious
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

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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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Adulthood Church Current Missionaries
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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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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Church Embodiment Inducement Most Trick

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