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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
Alan Hirsch
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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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Theologian
University Teacher
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Christianity
Spirit
Adventure
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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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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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Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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