Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
ALAN HIRSCHWhether 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.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
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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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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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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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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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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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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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