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.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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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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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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