And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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