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

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

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More data is not always the answer.

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

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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

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

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

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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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Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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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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