In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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