There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
ALAN HIRSCHOur preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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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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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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