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

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

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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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Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

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

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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

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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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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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