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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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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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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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