Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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