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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.

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

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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

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

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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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

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

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