Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
ALAN HIRSCHIf we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying 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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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