I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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