In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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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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More data is not always the answer.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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