Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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