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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

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

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

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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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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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A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for 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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

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