It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
ALAN HIRSCHBut because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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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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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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The surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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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 could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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