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.
ALAN HIRSCHBut the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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