But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
ALAN HIRSCHThe appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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 safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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