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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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