Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHThe ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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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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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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