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.
ALAN HIRSCHIn 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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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