It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
ALAN HIRSCHBut the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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