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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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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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 church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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