Our Adventure Mindset
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IT STARTS WITH AN ADVENTUROUS MINDSET!
We believe that there is nothing more powerful on the landscape of Christianity, or more effective in producing long-term, lasting, spiritual change, or bearing “fruit that remains” (John 15) like expertly-facilitated ministry that is Christ focused an on adventure. It is a recipe for Authentic, Missional, Abundant Living! |
Adventure at its very roots and by design, is intensely personal, intensely introspective, and intensely focused. It’s incredibly communal, decidedly truth-focused, deeply experiential and incredibly challenging – just like the life of faith in Christ. Behind every adventure exists deep parallels and inherent metaphors of the spiritual life that are so deeply empowering for life change. Through adventure, participants are immersed in experiences that make the concepts of Scripture come alive. Faith is never so tangible than when we are gripped and stretched by an adventure.
The reality is that life itself is a Journey of epic proportions. Each day we face decisions and experience situations that can have a deep impact on our lives and our futures. Adventure ministry and adventure challenges provide a parallel, a microcosm, a laboratory of sorts, in which to understand and process the dynamics of our spiritual lives and provides opportunities to grow as a person – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – in ways that most people never experience. The lessons learned through adventure experiences “stick”, and have a much higher chance of producing positive life change that is both significant and lasting, simply because they are intense and experiential.
Most don't realize that the Adventure began in the Garden when When God hard-wired us in his image. For most of us, it isn't until we find ourselves paralyzed or plagued by the shame of our sin, the past, or the pain we personally caused that we realize it. However, the Gospel is there to remind us that there is a deeper work that has been done. There is a perpetual under tone of the Gospel present in everything we do and when the enemy reminds and accuses us by saying “Look at what you have done” Jesus shouts in return a resounding “Look at what I have done!” You may never get over the guilt and shame, or the wounds and hurts you have either caused or experienced but, Jesus provided everything you need to move on in an epic adventure and at the same time send the enemy packing! “It is Finished” means It is finished. We must challenge each other to join in the adventure of growing in our faith and being stretched. Our whole purpose is to share that experience any way we can with the folks who desperately need to see redemption, restoration and reconciliation in their story and to equip others to join us in redeeming the adventure in our lives. What better way to get on the Path of the Author and Finisher of our Faith than to come along on an adventure of discovery with God to learn His purpose, His plan, and what He has been doing in our stories and then taking those around us on the same adventures that are on the path of God.
The reality is that life itself is a Journey of epic proportions. Each day we face decisions and experience situations that can have a deep impact on our lives and our futures. Adventure ministry and adventure challenges provide a parallel, a microcosm, a laboratory of sorts, in which to understand and process the dynamics of our spiritual lives and provides opportunities to grow as a person – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – in ways that most people never experience. The lessons learned through adventure experiences “stick”, and have a much higher chance of producing positive life change that is both significant and lasting, simply because they are intense and experiential.
Most don't realize that the Adventure began in the Garden when When God hard-wired us in his image. For most of us, it isn't until we find ourselves paralyzed or plagued by the shame of our sin, the past, or the pain we personally caused that we realize it. However, the Gospel is there to remind us that there is a deeper work that has been done. There is a perpetual under tone of the Gospel present in everything we do and when the enemy reminds and accuses us by saying “Look at what you have done” Jesus shouts in return a resounding “Look at what I have done!” You may never get over the guilt and shame, or the wounds and hurts you have either caused or experienced but, Jesus provided everything you need to move on in an epic adventure and at the same time send the enemy packing! “It is Finished” means It is finished. We must challenge each other to join in the adventure of growing in our faith and being stretched. Our whole purpose is to share that experience any way we can with the folks who desperately need to see redemption, restoration and reconciliation in their story and to equip others to join us in redeeming the adventure in our lives. What better way to get on the Path of the Author and Finisher of our Faith than to come along on an adventure of discovery with God to learn His purpose, His plan, and what He has been doing in our stories and then taking those around us on the same adventures that are on the path of God.
What does Redeemed Adventure look like?
Well-facilitated adventure experiences have a unique way of naturally opening people’s hearts and minds to new ways of thinking and processing life’s challenges. That growth then opens the door for them to step beyond their normal comfort zones and experience expanded opportunities as they apply those new thinking processes to their daily lives. Adventure is a powerful tool that can speak deeply to the heart especially as we parallel our experiences with the life of Christ and see things through the lens of Jesus! But beyond all of the other dynamics of adventure experiences lies the real, bedrock-level reality of its spiritual impact. If our lives are nothing else, they are living story lines of risk and reward, joy and pain, good and evil, glorious victory and agonizing defeat. Our small stories are, though we often forget the fact, all part of the truly epic story of God’s dealings with man. From the days of creation, God has been telling a story – one He has invited us to participate in through an intimate, living relationship with His Son, Jesus Christ. It’s an adventure and a journey that has its roots in eternity and its future in Glory. It’s a day-by-day process of participating with God and walking on the Path of God, in His work of transforming us into the image of Christ – for that is His ultimate goal. (Romans 8:29). This is the essence of living on Adventure!
The Redeemed Adventure Project draws from the Spiritual Parallels and Stories of Scripture - of the Journey and adventures that we are all making as Christians. Adventure experiences, combined with the discovery of who we are in Christ better serve to clarify our purpose in life to live on mission, to be authentic, and better understand what it means to follow Christ in life’s Journey. God speaks in powerful ways through everyday living with Him and in adventure experiences, simply because they so perfectly mirror the Path of Christ and the plans He has for us.
We are excited to have allies and agents who understand this adventurous mindset for daily living!
The Redeemed Adventure Project draws from the Spiritual Parallels and Stories of Scripture - of the Journey and adventures that we are all making as Christians. Adventure experiences, combined with the discovery of who we are in Christ better serve to clarify our purpose in life to live on mission, to be authentic, and better understand what it means to follow Christ in life’s Journey. God speaks in powerful ways through everyday living with Him and in adventure experiences, simply because they so perfectly mirror the Path of Christ and the plans He has for us.
We are excited to have allies and agents who understand this adventurous mindset for daily living!
THE ALLIED MINDSET
Adventure experiences have a unique way of opening people’s hearts and minds to new ways of thinking and processing life’s challenges. That growth then, opens the door for them to step beyond their normal comfort zones and experience expanded opportunities as they apply those new thinking processes to their daily lives. A healthy way of looking at is - "Life is an Adventure and every new adventure is a catalyst for manifesting His Glory in our world.
ADVENTURE IS NOT TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD
Adventure is not to be misunderstood as a new doctrine that Christianity has coined for the purpose of becoming more attractive to its constituents. However, we see a very clear biblical parallel that God has hardwired us for living a life of adventure that stretches us, causes personal growth, and then moves us to impact the world around us. Our mission is to inspire and empower people through adventure, with connection, and community through experiences that help them to become everything that God has intended them to be and at the same time having a powerful impact on those around them. This is The Redeemed Adventure Project!
Corrie Ten Boom said, "Faith is the fantastic adventure in trusting him." We hope to cultivate a culture adventure on the Path of God that means following Him in places that we wouldn't have expected!
Corrie Ten Boom said, "Faith is the fantastic adventure in trusting him." We hope to cultivate a culture adventure on the Path of God that means following Him in places that we wouldn't have expected!
THE THE PATH OF GOD IS AN ADVENTURE OF FAITH
A Life of Christianity is activated by faith on a path with God and on an Adventure! By faith we understand that God created the universe out of nothing (Hebrews 11:3). Through Jesus we have gained access to the grace by faith (Romans 5:2). And, the life we now live, we live by faith in the Son of God (Galatians 2:20). We have often thought about how we as Christians should approach all that is going on in the world and how we can align ourselves to God’s will. The more we think about it, We're convinced that whatever God leads us to do, it will stretch our faith and also include an epic adventure.
ABRAHAM'S STORY WAS AN EPIC ADVENTURE!
God rarely leads us to things that make “sense” to our minds and too many of us avoid the risk of things that don't sense. We have made what seems logical and excuse to avoid life's adventures. It did not make sense for Abram to uproot his life to do a restart in a brand new land. There was no guarantee that he would find land with water on it and welcoming neighbors. He only had a promise from a God that nobody around him knew yet, and he still set out on this adventure. This is not to mention the belief that he was to have a son in his old age. Often, living a life by faith on adventure will encourage other people to think you are crazy. But, it was Abraham’s faith that earned him righteousness. God spoke, and he believed. And now, we too live by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). We have encountered hundreds of stories of folks who have literally lost everything only to see God redeem those setbacks a hundredfold. It has all been part of the Adventure!
Faith Will Challenge Your Doubts
Faith is letting go and trusting that God will catch you. All of your safety measures will be removed. There will be no more backup plans. A life of faith along with the adventure of it will push you to the point of questioning all that you know and believe.
- Will God always provide?
- Will He protect me from harm?
- How can a good God allow this to happen?
- Is God’s plan for my life good?
- Will He come through this time?
- Why is this happening when I laid so much down for Him?
An Adventure of Faith Will Have Risks!
I have heard it said that faith goes hand in hand with RISK. Faith definitely takes takes us out of comfort zone to teach us to trust God. Remember! God loves to do what only He can do, and He is searching for people who will believe Him for it (2 Chronicles 16:9 & Luke 18:8). As followers of Christ, our adventures and lives should be positioned for God to intervene.
So, what will this look like for you? That really is up to your relationship with God. Are you on His Path? What is He telling you? What is He gravitating your heart towards?
There is so much going on today, and many of you are eager for God to intervene. We believe that you are the one's that He has called to live out His power and glory so why wait?
So, what will this look like for you? That really is up to your relationship with God. Are you on His Path? What is He telling you? What is He gravitating your heart towards?
There is so much going on today, and many of you are eager for God to intervene. We believe that you are the one's that He has called to live out His power and glory so why wait?
Tackling issues in your hometown
It is interesting to me that when Jesus was in His hometown, the Bible claims He could not do any miracles there because of their lack of faith (Matthew 13:58). Could this be true in the community you are in? How can you increase the faith of those around you?
Here we come to the final point of why it is so important to redeem and rediscover our faith and adventure! Here is where we ask ourselves if we are living on the missional path of God. If want to see a revival to come to our area, we will need to increase the levels of our faith and get on the adventures of risk that will take us into new territory with Him. This in simplicity is living out Authentic Faith with intentionality. Most importantly! We need to take others with us especially those around us and those who don't know Him. If others are to grow in their faith, they will need to have someone lead the way. That Someone is you! Therefore, if we want to see God invade our communities and/or nations, we need to live our lives embodied by faith, Faith that takes risk and goes on adventure!
Here we come to the final point of why it is so important to redeem and rediscover our faith and adventure! Here is where we ask ourselves if we are living on the missional path of God. If want to see a revival to come to our area, we will need to increase the levels of our faith and get on the adventures of risk that will take us into new territory with Him. This in simplicity is living out Authentic Faith with intentionality. Most importantly! We need to take others with us especially those around us and those who don't know Him. If others are to grow in their faith, they will need to have someone lead the way. That Someone is you! Therefore, if we want to see God invade our communities and/or nations, we need to live our lives embodied by faith, Faith that takes risk and goes on adventure!
What Will Your Adventure of Faith Look Like?
This means we will make decisions that without God it would make no sense. It could be giving up a good job, moving your family to an uncomfortable place, gifting something valuable to someone else, or being willing to have hard conversations. You may feel lead to pray for the impossible or forgive someone who has hurt you greatly.
Some of the decisions will be done privately where only your spouse and kids will know about. Others will stretch you to tell others before God has even come through. The only pattern to this lifestyle is following the Spirit’s leading. You may get it wrong at times, but our trust is in God’s protection, provision, and leading… not in our ability to get it right.
Let's Redeem this kind of Adventure into our lives and go reach our world for Christ. Making it known that we serve a God that loves us and wants to be involved in our lives.
Some of the decisions will be done privately where only your spouse and kids will know about. Others will stretch you to tell others before God has even come through. The only pattern to this lifestyle is following the Spirit’s leading. You may get it wrong at times, but our trust is in God’s protection, provision, and leading… not in our ability to get it right.
Let's Redeem this kind of Adventure into our lives and go reach our world for Christ. Making it known that we serve a God that loves us and wants to be involved in our lives.
THE Agent MINDSET
Agents of the Redeemed Adventure Project are those who don't just live on adventure but they take it with them everywhere they go. They are on mission to move people towards the Path of God into the furthest reaches of the world and even off-grid!. They are in the most simplistic terms - Missionaries wherever they go and wherever God plants them. There is a sharp contrast between just living on adventure and going on adventure when you may not even know the destination. Don't misunderstand what we are saying here! It is just as important to be called to a life of moving people onto a path of adventure with God or, to allow your story of risk and the stretching of your faith to be a catalyst for growth on walk with Christ with the people around you. However, The longer we grow in this way, the more we are driven to go! The more we are compelled with the mission of reaching those who don't know of Christ and the epic adventure He has all of us on.
Adventure Agents avoid complacency because they know that familiarity can breed discontentment. To better describe what we have seen happen many times is that patterns, attitudes, and behaviours can often develop in individuals or groups, towards an ideology, especially in Christianity which develop negative and inward characteristics. Suffice it to say that when our faith isn't on the move, or being stretched, and we are no longer enjoying the excitement of the adventure the Lord has us on and the focus becomes each other. This kind of religious behavior can be identified when self seeking believers put themselves in the spotlight and take the attention away from Christ. This kind of misdirection, and dissatisfaction in any group can be the death of it! Agents of Adventure always move in the direction of Jesus. They are contagious, visionary, understand the pulse and heart of God, and can navigate adversity not because they know where they are going but because they know the One who has granted us everything for our Journey. Simply stated... It is the difference of being on your own mission verses a mission that is led by the Spirit of God.
2 Peter 1:3-4 English Standard Version (ESV)
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
We are most excited about the folks who want to be Agents on the mission of Redeeming our life of Adventure with God and taking it into all of the world!
Adventure Agents avoid complacency because they know that familiarity can breed discontentment. To better describe what we have seen happen many times is that patterns, attitudes, and behaviours can often develop in individuals or groups, towards an ideology, especially in Christianity which develop negative and inward characteristics. Suffice it to say that when our faith isn't on the move, or being stretched, and we are no longer enjoying the excitement of the adventure the Lord has us on and the focus becomes each other. This kind of religious behavior can be identified when self seeking believers put themselves in the spotlight and take the attention away from Christ. This kind of misdirection, and dissatisfaction in any group can be the death of it! Agents of Adventure always move in the direction of Jesus. They are contagious, visionary, understand the pulse and heart of God, and can navigate adversity not because they know where they are going but because they know the One who has granted us everything for our Journey. Simply stated... It is the difference of being on your own mission verses a mission that is led by the Spirit of God.
2 Peter 1:3-4 English Standard Version (ESV)
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
We are most excited about the folks who want to be Agents on the mission of Redeeming our life of Adventure with God and taking it into all of the world!