The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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