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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: 64
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Adventure
Christianity
Spirit

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Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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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, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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 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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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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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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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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