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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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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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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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

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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

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

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

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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

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

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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

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

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