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

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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

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

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

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

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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

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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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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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

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

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

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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

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More data is not always the answer.

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