To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilt squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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