The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
ALAN HIRSCHThe mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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