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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

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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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It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

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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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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

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

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