But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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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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