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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

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

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

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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

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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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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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

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