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 HIRSCHIt seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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