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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Block God Obstruct People Purpose
Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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