This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
ALAN HIRSCHIt seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Renewal 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.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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 ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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