It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether 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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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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