Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
ALAN HIRSCHReal leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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