Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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