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

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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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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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