A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHMost 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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