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.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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