The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHThe ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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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 surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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