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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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More data is not always the answer.

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

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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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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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