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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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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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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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