Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCHIf 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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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 surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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