There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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