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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

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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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The 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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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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