Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHInterestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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