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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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