The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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 are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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