Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
ALAN HIRSCHA missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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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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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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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.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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