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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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