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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 have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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