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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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 a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Assume Cross Cultural Mission Now
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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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