A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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