Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
ALAN HIRSCHYou can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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