We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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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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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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