Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
ALAN HIRSCHA retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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Put 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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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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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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