In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHInterestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional 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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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