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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’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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