Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
ALAN HIRSCHThink of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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 church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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