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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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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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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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But 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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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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More data is not always the answer.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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