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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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