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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 missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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

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

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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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 could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would 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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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

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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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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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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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

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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

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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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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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