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

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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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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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