You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
ALAN HIRSCHIt’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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 missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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