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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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 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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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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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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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