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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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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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