But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
ALAN HIRSCHYou cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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