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

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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent 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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

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

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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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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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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

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

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

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

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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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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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