A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHA capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
ALAN HIRSCHIt not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
ALAN HIRSCHMore data is not always the answer.
ALAN HIRSCHOur preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHThe quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
ALAN HIRSCHInterestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
ALAN HIRSCHWho knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
ALAN HIRSCHWe 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.
ALAN HIRSCHIn missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHThe embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
ALAN HIRSCHIf a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
ALAN HIRSCHBeing the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
ALAN HIRSCHThe appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face.
ALAN HIRSCHThe surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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