If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
ALAN HIRSCHMost 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.
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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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 order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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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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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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More data is not always the answer.
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