We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
ALAN HIRSCHBut the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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