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.
ALAN HIRSCHThe appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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