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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not 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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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 short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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