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.
ALAN HIRSCHYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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 must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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