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

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

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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

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

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

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

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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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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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