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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 missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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