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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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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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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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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 because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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