You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHThe safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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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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