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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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