The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCHBut 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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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