The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
ALAN HIRSCHIn a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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We 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.
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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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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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