You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHOur point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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