Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCHOur 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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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