There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
ALAN HIRSCHTo obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through his people.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
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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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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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A capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
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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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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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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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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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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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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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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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