Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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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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