Whether 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.
ALAN HIRSCHAnd if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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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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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase “missional church” lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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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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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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