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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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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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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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