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.
ALAN HIRSCH
A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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