The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
ALAN HIRSCHCurrently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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