You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHBeing the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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