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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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