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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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