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.
ALAN HIRSCHThe quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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More data is not always the answer.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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