It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHThe mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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