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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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