In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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