Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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