Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
ALAN HIRSCHThe surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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More data is not always the answer.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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