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.
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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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