In short, we find the faith of leap.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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 we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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