Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
ALAN HIRSCHThis 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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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