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.
ALAN HIRSCHHeroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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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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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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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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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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The embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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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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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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