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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.

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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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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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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Church Embrace Excite Jesus Need
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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