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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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