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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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 safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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