There’s no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
ALAN HIRSCHHeroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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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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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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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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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
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We must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
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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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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Truth is narrow, but grace is wide.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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More data is not always the answer.
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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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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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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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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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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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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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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