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

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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 missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

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

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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

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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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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

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

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

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

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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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