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

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More data is not always the answer.

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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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

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

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

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A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

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

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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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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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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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It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

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

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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.

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

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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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