Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
ALAN HIRSCHMany church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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