Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
ALAN HIRSCHJudgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether 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.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHBut herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
ALAN HIRSCHAll their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
ALAN HIRSCHBut the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
ALAN HIRSCHLiminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHAt some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
ALAN HIRSCHYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHA capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHIn order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
ALAN HIRSCHThe surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
ALAN HIRSCHMost churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
ALAN HIRSCHOur 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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