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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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