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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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

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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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

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

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

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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

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