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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.

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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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