Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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