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

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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

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

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

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

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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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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

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

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

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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

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The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.

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