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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern 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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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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