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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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Apply Chest Church Defibrillator Die Mission Paddie Think
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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Consider Decentralize Everyone Ministry Mission Organisation Structure
Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Believe Hero Important Symbolize
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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God Jesus Name Retreat Spirituality Transform World
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Been Bird Church Fly Learn Missional Nest Push Themselves
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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Abandon Adventure Aversion Church Embrace Equip Inherent Live Loss
A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Appl Believer Every Ies Life Missional Theology Whole
In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Demand Ourselves Position Servant Service World
To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Block God Obstruct People Purpose
Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Advance Day Destiny Every Guest Like Journey Love Path Peril Quest Whether
When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Church Mission True
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Dynamic Foster Impact Inner Lack Mission Obsess Profound Safety Time
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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Christianity Context Cultural Decline Herein Identity Long Ter Try
We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Assume Cross Cultural Mission Now
The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Commonly Directly Flow God Jesus Mission
There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Already Christian Sent Such Thing Unsent

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