The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
ALAN HIRSCHMany 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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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 theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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