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

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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.

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

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

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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

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

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

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More data is not always the answer.

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