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

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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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 ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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