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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

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

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

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

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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

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

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

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

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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent 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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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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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