Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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