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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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