To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
ALAN HIRSCHHeroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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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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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.
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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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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
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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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Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world.
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
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All their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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