This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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