In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHBut 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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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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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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.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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