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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
More important, Christian community is not something about which we can arbitrarily make decisions — it is not an optional extra.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
Because of this global uncertainty, the visionary and the adventurous amongst us will get to shape the future of the twenty-first century—the church included.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
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.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
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.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
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.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
Indeed, we believe that twenty-first century Christians are yearning to see the adventure put back into Christianity, into the relationship with the living God — where it rightly belongs.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
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.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
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.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
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.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
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.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
The Faith of Leap (2011)
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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