Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
ALAN HIRSCHMany 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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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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Our 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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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