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.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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