Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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