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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

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

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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 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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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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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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