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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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