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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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Consider Decentralize Everyone Ministry Mission Organisation Structure
You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Adventure Blind Opportunity Our Preference Present Security Stability Themselves
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Big Crash Demand Dramatic God King Kingdom Opera Unavoidable
Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Belong Extremely Fame Hall Judgment Subjective
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Demand Ourselves Position Servant Service World
It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Adventure Christianity Religion Spirit
Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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