Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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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.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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