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# It Takes Time
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/20101028it-takes-time-html/
- Published: 2010-10-28T09:00:47.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:30:15.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

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Karen Stiller (with Willard Metzger) has written a great new book called [*Going Missional: Conversations with 13 Canadian Churches Who Have Embraced Missional Life*](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1770690212?ie=UTF8&tag=dashhouse-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1770690212&ref=dashhouse.com)

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. I haven’t read the entire book yet, but it looks good so far. It’s refreshing to see a book like this written from a Canadian perspective.

I love this passage near the end of the book:

> What I heard, over and over again in the interviews I did for this book (and there were 46 of them) was that the teaching and preaching that leads to a church slowly, painfully, awkwardly, turning itself inside out to face the world once again takes time – and it costs. Churches, especially well-established ones who have had a longer time to grow comfortable and cut-off, do not become missional overnight. But, all across Canada, it is happening.

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