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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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 is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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