Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
ALAN HIRSCHIt seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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More data is not always the answer.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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