It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
ALAN HIRSCHBut 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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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