I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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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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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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