We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
ALAN HIRSCHHeroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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