If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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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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