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

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

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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

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

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.

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

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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 missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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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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