If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
ALAN HIRSCHIn a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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