Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
ALAN HIRSCHInterestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true 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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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