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

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

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

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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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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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More data is not always the answer.

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

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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

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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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