The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would 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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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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