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

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

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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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Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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More data is not always the answer.

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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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