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

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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

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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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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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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

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

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

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