A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHRenewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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 embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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