The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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