Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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