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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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

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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.

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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

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