Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHThere is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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