The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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 ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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 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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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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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