Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace.
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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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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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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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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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You can do more with 12 disciples than with 1,200 religious consumers.
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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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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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