The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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