A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHWe have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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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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