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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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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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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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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