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.
ALAN HIRSCHNowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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