And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
ALAN HIRSCHThe fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Many 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.
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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’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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