You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHInterestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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