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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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