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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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