The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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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 embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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