There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
ALAN HIRSCHWe must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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