We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
ALAN HIRSCHTruth is narrow, but grace is wide.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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