The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
ALAN HIRSCHThe mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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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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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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 short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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