If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
ALAN HIRSCHWe must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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More data is not always the answer.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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