If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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