It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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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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More data is not always the answer.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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