I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
ALAN HIRSCHEvery disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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 ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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More data is not always the answer.
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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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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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