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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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