A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHA retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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