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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 is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Assume Cross Cultural Mission Now

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