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.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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