Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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 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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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 [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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