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

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

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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

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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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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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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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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

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

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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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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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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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More data is not always the answer.

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

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

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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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