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

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

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

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

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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

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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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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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

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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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