The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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More data is not always the answer.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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