It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
ALAN HIRSCHA retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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