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

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

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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

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

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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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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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Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

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

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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