Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
ALAN HIRSCHJudgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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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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Built 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.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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