The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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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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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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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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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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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