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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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 theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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 is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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 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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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