Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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