The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
ALAN HIRSCHRenewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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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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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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