The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHWe must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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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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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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.
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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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