If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
ALAN HIRSCHBeing the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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More data is not always the answer.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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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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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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