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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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