In short, we find the faith of leap.
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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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 appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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