Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHIn short, we find the faith of leap.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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