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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Belong Extremely Fame Hall Judgment Subjective
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Adventure Blind Opportunity Our Preference Present Security Stability Themselves
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Church Embrace Excite Jesus Need
It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Abandon Biblical Ineffective Mandate Missionary Render
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Been Bird Church Fly Learn Missional Nest Push Themselves
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Culture Disciple God Life Mission Missionary Sphere
Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Emerge Freshness Innovation Insight Know Spirit
To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Block God Obstruct People Purpose
Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Christianity Context Cultural Decline Herein Identity Long Ter Try
The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Come Enact Fact Future Jesus Kingdom Secure Trust
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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Church Mission True
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Church Emphasis Movement New Place Protestant Style Worship
Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Among Assume Church Go Like Look People

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