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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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