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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.

— Alan Hirsch The Faith of Leap (2011)

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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 safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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