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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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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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 is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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