Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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