Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
ALAN HIRSCHWe must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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