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

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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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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.

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Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

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

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

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