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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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