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When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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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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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

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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 ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

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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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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, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

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It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

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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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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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