In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHMission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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