But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
ALAN HIRSCHThe fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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