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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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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

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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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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

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

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

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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. 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—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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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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