Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHIf a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Most 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.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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