Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
ALAN HIRSCHThe appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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 kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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