More data is not always the answer.
ALAN HIRSCHIt is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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