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

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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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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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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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