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

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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 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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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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 church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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