Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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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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And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting.
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