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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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