A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
ALAN HIRSCHThere’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
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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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Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
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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’s not so much that the church has a mission, it’s that the mission of God has a church.
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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.
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