It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
ALAN HIRSCHChristianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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 surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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