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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 religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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