The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
ALAN HIRSCHThe 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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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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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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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