The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
ALAN HIRSCHMany 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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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More data is not always the answer.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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