This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
ALAN HIRSCHThere is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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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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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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.
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