Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
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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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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The fact is that if Jesus’s future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
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There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
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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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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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