Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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