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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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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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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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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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