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

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

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

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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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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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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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More data is not always the answer.

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

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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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It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

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

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