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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

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

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

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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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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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Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

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

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

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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

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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 order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

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

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