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.
ALAN HIRSCHA retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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