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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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