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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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