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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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