A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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