Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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 missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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