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

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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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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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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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