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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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 appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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