The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
ALAN HIRSCHThink of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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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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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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