This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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 church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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