The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
ALAN HIRSCHIn a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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