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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 must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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