If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
ALAN HIRSCHWhen there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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 surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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