If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
ALAN HIRSCHThe ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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