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

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

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

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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

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

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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

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

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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

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A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

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