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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Counterfeit Divorce Mission Some Worship
It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Abandon Biblical Ineffective Mandate Missionary Render
Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Among Assume Church Go Like Look People
Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Along Capacity Dare Discipleship Engender Genuine Innovation
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Apply Chest Church Defibrillator Die Mission Paddie Think
We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Faith Find Leap Short
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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