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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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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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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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