Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
ALAN HIRSCHReal leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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 surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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