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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.

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

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

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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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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.

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

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

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

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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.

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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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You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

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

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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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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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