If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
ALAN HIRSCHThe kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Because 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.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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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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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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