Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilt 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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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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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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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 a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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