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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.

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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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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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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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