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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 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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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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 safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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