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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

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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 a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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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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