The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
ALAN HIRSCHMission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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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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