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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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 appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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