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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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More data is not always the answer.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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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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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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