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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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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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