You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHBuilding community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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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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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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