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

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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