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

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

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

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

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

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.

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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

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

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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 will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

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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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