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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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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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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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 the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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 kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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