If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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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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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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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