In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHRenewal 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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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