Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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