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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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