Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
ALAN HIRSCHGo among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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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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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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