The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
ALAN HIRSCHA retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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