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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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