The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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