The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
ALAN HIRSCHMore data is not always the answer.
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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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western 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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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