We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
ALAN HIRSCHPut 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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