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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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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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