A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHThe ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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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 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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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