Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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 thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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