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

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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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