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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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