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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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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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