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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

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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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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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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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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying 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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

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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, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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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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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

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