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.
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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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