In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHOur 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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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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