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

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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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