Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Renewal 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.
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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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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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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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