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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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