The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
ALAN HIRSCHYou plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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