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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

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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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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 embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying 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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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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