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.
ALAN HIRSCHThe fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Renewal 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.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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