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

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

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

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

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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

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

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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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More data is not always the answer.

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

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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

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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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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

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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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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.

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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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