Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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