Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
ALAN HIRSCHThe appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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