If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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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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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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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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