Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
ALAN HIRSCHHeroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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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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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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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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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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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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