Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
ALAN HIRSCHHeroes 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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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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