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

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

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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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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Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

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

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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

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

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

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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

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

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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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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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