We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
ALAN HIRSCHWe have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
ALAN HIRSCHThe ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCHBut 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 HIRSCHA capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHMost 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.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
ALAN HIRSCHRenewal 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.
ALAN HIRSCHOur point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
ALAN HIRSCHYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
ALAN HIRSCHInterestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
ALAN HIRSCHThe embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
ALAN HIRSCHBecause we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
ALAN HIRSCHThe surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
ALAN HIRSCHBut the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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