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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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 surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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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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