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

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

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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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

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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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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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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

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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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More data is not always the answer.

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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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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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