It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
ALAN HIRSCHThe safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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