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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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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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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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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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