Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Unless 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.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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