It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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 missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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