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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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