We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
ALAN HIRSCHWe 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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 ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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 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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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