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 HIRSCHThe appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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