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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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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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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 embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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