Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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But 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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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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