It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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More data is not always the answer.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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.
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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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