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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 must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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