To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
ALAN HIRSCHUnless 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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 mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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Put 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.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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