The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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 itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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