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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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“Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship”
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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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“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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“Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.”
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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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“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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“The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.”
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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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“Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.”
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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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“Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.”
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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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“If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.”
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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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“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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“It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.”
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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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“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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“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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“The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.”
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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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“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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“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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“But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.”
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“You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.”
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“In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.”
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“There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.”
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