If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
ALAN HIRSCHThe safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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 missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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