Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
ALAN HIRSCHThe church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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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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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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