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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

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