At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
ALAN HIRSCHMission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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