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.
ALAN HIRSCHThe appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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