At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen the church is in mission, it is the true church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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