If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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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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