The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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