Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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