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

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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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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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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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

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

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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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

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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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