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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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