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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.

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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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