Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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