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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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