Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
ALAN HIRSCHPut simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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