You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHThe mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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