Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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