It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
ALAN HIRSCHThe surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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