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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern 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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

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

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

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

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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

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

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

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

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

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