Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHOur preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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