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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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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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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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