A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHNowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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It’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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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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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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