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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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