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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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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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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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