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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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