I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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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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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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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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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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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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 capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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