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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

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The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

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

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

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

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

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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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

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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

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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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