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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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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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