Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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 is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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