When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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