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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

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

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

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

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

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

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More data is not always the answer.

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

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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

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

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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

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

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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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