Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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 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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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