There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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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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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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 could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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