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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.

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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Assume Cross Cultural Mission Now
At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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