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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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