A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHThe surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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More data is not always the answer.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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