There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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 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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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