Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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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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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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And every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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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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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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