Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHCurrently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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 capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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