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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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