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

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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

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

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

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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

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

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

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

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

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More data is not always the answer.

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