Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
ALAN HIRSCHIf 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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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