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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

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

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

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More data is not always the answer.

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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 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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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

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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 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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

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

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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

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

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

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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

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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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