There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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