The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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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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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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But 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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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