Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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