If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
ALAN HIRSCHReconnecting 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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