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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.

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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.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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