This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
ALAN HIRSCHGo among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Most 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.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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