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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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