Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
ALAN HIRSCHBut 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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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 retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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