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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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