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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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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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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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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 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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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