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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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Culture Disciple God Life Mission Missionary Sphere
We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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