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.
ALAN HIRSCHInterestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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