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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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Consider Decentralize Everyone Ministry Mission Organisation Structure
Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Grace Wide Narrow Truth
The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Adventure Desire Embodiment Epoch Every People Very
We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Capacity Courageous Go Necessary Need Stand Take
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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Abandon Adventure Aversion Church Embrace Equip Inherent Live Loss
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Comfort Distress Knock Leader Question People Real Result Zone
Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Adventure Children Cocoon Domesticate Nowadays Raise Risk Security Sense
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Consumerism Force Power Religion Such West
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Adventure Blind Opportunity Our Preference Present Security Stability Themselves
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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Church God Mission Much
More data is not always the answer.
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Always Answer Data More
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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Gospel More Power Present Primal Rediscover Renewal Spirit
When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Church Mission True
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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Come Enact Fact Future Jesus Kingdom Secure Trust
I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Culture Despite Found Hard Way Sure
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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Christianity Context Cultural Decline Herein Identity Long Ter Try
We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Assume Cross Cultural Mission Now
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Apply Chest Church Defibrillator Die Mission Paddie Think
The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Commonly Directly Flow God Jesus Mission
Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Archetypal God Gospel Heroic Interestingly Journey Story
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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Change Completely Cross Follow Game Jesus Root Submission Threshold Very
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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Change Failure Familiar Path Point Risk Take Walk Will
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Big Crash Demand Dramatic God King Kingdom Opera Unavoidable
The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Adventure Consciousness Film Sense Sport Surface Television Travel Vicarious
Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Church Eternal God Intend Jesus Participate Purpose World
Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Agent Disciple God Kingdom
You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Church Gospel Plant

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