If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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 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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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