If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCHOur point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilt squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
ALAN HIRSCHThe embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
ALAN HIRSCHPut 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.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
ALAN HIRSCHAll their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
ALAN HIRSCHRenewal 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.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen the church is in mission, it is the true church.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHThe quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
ALAN HIRSCHThe ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCHYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHChristianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
ALAN HIRSCHBut 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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