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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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More data is not always the answer.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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