We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilt 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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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