Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCHThe safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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