There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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