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

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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

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

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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

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

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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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

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

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

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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 is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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

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

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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

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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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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

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We are the people of the ultimate Quest — we are on a wild, and sometimes dangerous, adventure to save the world.

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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.

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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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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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More important, Christian community is not something about which we can arbitrarily make decisions — it is not an optional extra.

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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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