A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd 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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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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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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 surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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