Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
ALAN HIRSCHMost 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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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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