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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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 surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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