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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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