Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
ALAN HIRSCHUnless 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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 fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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