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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

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

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

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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

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

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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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More data is not always the answer.

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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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The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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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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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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