Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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