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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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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.

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More data is not always the answer.

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

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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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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.

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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 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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

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

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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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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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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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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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