Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHIn short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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