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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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