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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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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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Age Away Believer Church Consumerism Embrace Equip God Greed Kingdom Materialism Power Value Vision
We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Assume Cross Cultural Mission Now
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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Church Destine Extend Itself List Mission Obligate Product
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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Christianity Context Cultural Decline Herein Identity Long Ter Try
Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Grace Wide Narrow Truth
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Find Innovation Only Liminal Possibility Retreat Situation
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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Adrenaline Change Community Culture Junkie Make Unsustainable
Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Bound Decline Eventual Imagination Increase Irrelevance Most Resource
There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Doubt God Jesus Life Mean Side Walk Wider
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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Always Community Lost Potential Purpose Reconnect Touch Way
Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Christian Every Religious Sent Unsent
Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Among Assume Church Go Like Look People
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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Come Enact Fact Future Jesus Kingdom Secure Trust
A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Appl Believer Every Ies Life Missional Theology Whole
A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Church Dialectic Journey Live Missional Stay
To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Block God Obstruct People Purpose

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