Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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