Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
ALAN HIRSCHThe missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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