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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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More data is not always the answer.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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