Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.
ALAN HIRSCHCurrently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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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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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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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.
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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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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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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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It seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.
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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 church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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