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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

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

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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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

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