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 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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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