A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHBut the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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 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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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