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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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 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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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