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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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 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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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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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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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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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